Norman Podhoretz

The Prophets (eBook, ePUB)

Who They Were, What They Are

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Norman Podhoretz, the author of eight previous books on subjects ranging from contemporary literature to foreign policy, was editor in chief of Commentary for thirty-five years and is now the magazine's editor at large and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. A graduate of Columbia and Cambridge Universities, as well as of the Seminary College of Jewish Studies (where he earned a Bachelor of Hebrew Literature), he has been awarded a Pulitzer Scholarship, a Kellett Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Francis L. Boyer Award from the American Enterprise Institute, and five honorary doctorates, including one from the Jewish Theological Seminary and another from Yeshiva University. He lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Midge Decter.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743238601
• Artikelnr.: 53434535

Autorenporträt

Norman Podhoretz

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: The Biblical Context
A Note on Translations
Part One: Clouds of Ancestral Glory
1. In the Beginning
2. Wielding the Sword
3. Plunging into Politics
4. Rebuking the King
5. Before and After Elijah
Part Two: Eruption
6. Amos: The Lion Roars
7. Hosea and the Whore
8. Micah: Pax Israelitica
9. The First Isaiah and the Blood of Bullocks
10. Up from Underground
11. Jeremiah: The Reluctant Prophet
12. Ezekiel and the Jealous God
13. The Second Isaiah and "Universalism"
14. The End of the Line
15. Coda
Part Three: Aftershocks
16. The Prophets and Us
Bibliographical Note
A Key to Citations
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
Index